Bronte Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters. — J.A. Konrath
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a… — Elif Batuman
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they… — Francine Prose
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably… — Virginia Woolf
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the… — Maureen Corrigan
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. — Laura Marling
I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit… — Frances O'Connor
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess. — Jamaica Kincaid
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those… — Jessica Brown Findlay
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is… — C.S. Lewis
But the cinephile is â€¦ a neurotic! (Thatâ€™s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and itâ€™s because they were neurotic that they… — Francois Truffaut
For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I… — Neal Shusterman
Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of… — Kamila Shamsie
Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming,… — Neal Shusterman
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum… — Rachel Joyce
My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears,… — Eleanor Catton

Who Wrote These Bronte Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Bronte Quotes as follows: